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Should we scrap SATs? Cautiously, yes
Apr 20, 2019 |
Category: assessment
Earlier this week, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn turned up at the NEU annual conference with some crowd pleasing ideas. The most eye-catching of these was that he would, if elected, scrap SATs, saying,...
How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 4: Instruction
Apr 07, 2019 |
Category: assessment
This is the final post in a series looking at how we can be sure that students are making progress through the curriculum.The whole purpose of knowing whether students are making progress is to be abl...
How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 3: Assessment
Mar 26, 2019 |
Category: assessment
In Part 1 of this series I set out the problems with making predictions about students’ progress by drawing a ‘flight path’ between KS2 and KS4, then, in Part 2, I explained how thinking about the cur...
How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 1: The madness of flight paths
Mar 23, 2019 |
Category: assessment
Schools are desperate to find ways to predict students' progress from year to year and between key stages. Seemingly, the most common approach to solving this problem is to produce some sort of 'fligh...
Garbage in, garbage out
Oct 16, 2018 |
Category: assessment
This is my latest article for the rather wonderful Teach Secondary magazine.Schools are awash with data but do we know any more about how children are performing? Are we clear how likely they are to a...
Put down your crystal balls
Jul 03, 2017 |
Category: assessment
Many of the schools I visit and work with feel under enormous pressure to predict what their students are likely to achieve in their next set of GCSEs. In the past, this approach sort of made sense. O...
Why feedback fails
Jan 10, 2017 |
Category: assessment
Feedback is one of the few things in education that pretty much every agrees is important and worthwhile. The need for feedback is obvious: if you were expected to learn how to reverse park a car whil...
Making a mockery of marking: The new GCSE English Language mocks
Dec 05, 2016 |
Category: assessment
The following is a guest post from the mastermind of Comparative Judgement, Dr Chris Wheadon.The marking of English Language is likely to be extremely challenging this year. English Language has long...
Go Compare!
Sep 09, 2016 |
Category: assessment
Another one from Teach Secondary, this one from their assessment special. This time it's an over view of Comparative Judgement.Human beings are exceptionally poor at judging the quality of a thing on...
When assessment fails
Jul 12, 2016 |
Category: assessment
I wrote yesterday about the distinctions between assessment and feedback. This sparked some interesting comment which I want to explore here. I posted a diagram which Nick Rose and I designed for our...
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